In class blog post:
Think about the filter bubble video from last week. That talked about google and we're in library databases, but could the basic idea of a filter bubble apply to the different databases? Why or why not? Include which databases you searched and any differences you noticed in the results you got. What, if any, differences did you notice in the types of topics covered in each?When thinking about the filter bubble video from last week that talked about google and comparing it to our library databases I feel like filter bubbles do not exist in the databases. This is because I feel like Google searches are more broad and you get millions of results so filter bubbles sometimes can be necessary, but for our library databases such as (at EBSCO Host) and GALILEO your results when doing a refined search are more direct not as broad so filter bubbles can't exist. When searching GALILEO and ProQuest in class I found that the results were different between the searches but I don't think that is because of filter bubbles. I think that is because they are peer reviewed so there are going to be different articles and results, but that doesn't mean they are not similar.
When searching key words like Art, Art Culture, Art Influences, the databases brought up similar results about my research topic. But when I searched the same thing into Google it brought up so many results and none of them were similar to the databases.
I agree ! i feel since Google is more of a universal site then it is not as broad. I would believe that databases such as the library ones we use in class would be more reliable to use when looking for research information.
ReplyDeleteI agree because Google is more commonly known and used it has features that most other data bases do not the databases do not have filter bubbles because the same thing happened to me when I was using the database it did not bring up as many as Google but if those systems did get filter bubbles they could be much more useful.
ReplyDeleteGoogle pulls it's results from many more places off the internet than GALILEO. It is extermely broad. GALILEO has more scholarly articles and is not a place for advertisiment so I agree filter bubbles are not an issue as they are on Google. Using GALILEO also allows results to be more specific and we are able to design the settings and what tyoe of articles we dont see.
ReplyDeleteI do not think that filters exist in the data bases either. Google has so many more results so they pretty much have to do some type of filtering. I think that google filtering the results is more acceptable than like Galileo and whatnot.
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